First YearsThis box set documents Riccardo Chailly's first years as principal conductor of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. In summer 2016, he steps into the office as Claudio Abbado's successor with Mahler's 8th Symphony. In a colorful, fresh and stirring performance of the overture and incidental music to William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Tchaikovsky's "Manfred" Symphony, Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra bring the musical imagery

which evolved from their prior outfit the Escorts

Working with ensembles such as the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin

"I Love You So"

Other featured vocalists are David Street and Charlotte Blackburn

Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton was an rhythm and blues and blues singer and songwriter

and firmly plant themselves on the hip-hop map

Mercury RCA

Renata Pokupic

composed by Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer

The Mint Juleps

mostly presented in the order and format they were released on the albums "Flip Phillips Quartet"

With Robert Byrd (aka Bobby Day)